On the Street
OPINION: God Save the Queen
Wednesday 8 June 2022 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in On the Street, Opinion
Summer holidays in New Zealand I remember attending a CYC Christian Youth Camp in Ngaruawahia. One particular year my mother came half way through the week to take me home.
OPINION: Country meets Covid challenges head-on
Wednesday 4 May 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in On the Street, Opinion
It was the great American tennis player Arthur Ashe who said, “Success is a journey, not a destination”, writes Prime Minister Mark Brown.
Ring a rosie
Monday 28 March 2022 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in On the Street, Opinion
I’m not sure what blessing words the world will be remembered for bestowing during this recent and modern pandemic. More likely, the words of ‘lockdown’ mandates and antivaxx will reverberate for a while, writes Ruta Mave.
My reo lives in my heart
Saturday 26 March 2022 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in On the Street, Opinion
I am fortunate, because for as long as I can remember Maori was spoken in our home, just never to me, although at times about me, especially when I had misbehaved, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
Total commitment to Christ
Friday 25 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in On the Street, Opinion
A person’s attitude is perhaps the hardest of all personal attributes to change.
Covid-19 battle: There is light at the end of the tunnel
Tuesday 22 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in On the Street, Opinion
We cannot predict the future, but as Cook Islanders we can, should and always will hope and plan for the best, working to overcome each new challenge as it arises, writes Prime Minister Mark Brown.
The eyes of the Lord are everywhere
Monday 21 March 2022 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in On the Street, Opinion
Who you are when no one is watching is who you really are, and it’s this private self that is judged by God, not the self you pretend to be in public, writes Ruta Mave.
Genie in a bottle: The magic of glass
Saturday 19 March 2022 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in On the Street, Opinion
Sand has become a hot commodity here on Rarotonga and Aitutaki. Yes, for the picture-perfect beach shots, but also for increased interest to build, writes Te Ipukarea Society.
What dies becomes the fertiliser of our lives
Saturday 19 March 2022 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in On the Street, Opinion
If we measure our lives in season, there are those seasons when the Sun shone so brightly and others where it was grey and cold and it just seemed to rain, rain and rain, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
PET TALK: The Power of the Dog
Wednesday 16 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in On the Street, Opinion
I haven’t seen the film, which has won praise, earned millions, and won high acclaim from audiences and critics alike.
A picture is worth a thousand words
Monday 14 March 2022 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in On the Street, Opinion
I live in paradise far from this bitter cold war, I can choose to ride a bicycle when petrol is too high, I don’t need to know war to feel the pain of those facing it right now, writes Ruta Mave.
When the village fails the innocent
Saturday 12 March 2022 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in On the Street, Opinion
They say it takes a village to raise a child and when the village fails the innocent, and fails women, something very precious dies within us all, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
‘Ka mua, ka muri’: Walking backwards into the future
Saturday 5 March 2022 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in On the Street, Opinion
When western thinking arrived in what would soon be called the Cook Islands in 1903, Missionary advanced the way we saw the world, the way we saw ourselves and the way we saw time had already begun to unfold as we unravelled all our traditional knowledge, customs and ways of knowing and put them in a box handed to us by our colonisers with the word “etene” on it.
‘We are the people’
Saturday 5 March 2022 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in On the Street, Opinion
The following comments are made, in part, as a response to the statements made by Prime Minister Mark Brown on Cook Islands Television on March 1, 2022.
War can’t give life it can only take it away
Monday 28 February 2022 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in On the Street, Opinion
People in countries that have suffered war are faced with the dilemma of packing what is most important in your life into one suitcase and start running.
Golden apples or forbidden fruit?
Friday 25 February 2022 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in On the Street, Opinion
It was very clear from the speeches made at this week’s licencing ceremony that government fully expects exploration to lead to full scale mining as a logical and natural progression, writes Te Ipukarea Society.
Never before has the word become so weaponised
Friday 25 February 2022 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in On the Street, Opinion
Listening to the flurry of news reports on the invasion of the sovereign country Ukraine by President Putin and his army, I couldn’t help but notice the comparison between other narratives of tyranny, nazification and the weaponisation of words like freedom fighters around us today.
Masters of our own destiny
Friday 25 February 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in On the Street, Opinion
Charles Dickens in his most famous novel ‘Tale of Two Cities’, opened up his story line with this most historically popular and famous statements – “It was the best of times and it was the worst of time”, writes Bishop Tutai Pere.
'We all have a part to play,' says PM
Tuesday 22 February 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in On the Street, Opinion
It is clear – the protocols we have in place are working, the vaccine is doing its job and the faith we have put both in our own processes and also our Christian faith has been well-founded, writes Prime Minister Mark Brown.
A tribute to African American men and women
Monday 21 February 2022 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in On the Street, Opinion
February is black history month and a tribute to African American men and women who have made significant contributions to America and the rest of the world in the fields of science, politics, law, sports, the arts, entertainment, and many other fields.
